An Australian child has become the second victim of a tick-borne meat allergy, according to reports.
A 16-year-old boy from Australia died within hours of eating sausages on a camping trip in 2022. Now his mother has revealed he died as a result of a tick-borne meat allergy.
Infowars.com reports: Jeremy Webb was on a camping trip with friends at the beach when he died after eating beef sausages. He began experiencing difficulty breathing, and collapsed on his way to seek help from a nearby caravan.
Despite efforts to resuscitate him, he was pronounced dead an hour and a half later at a nearby hospital.
As The New York Post reports, “The teen’s cause of death was initially determined to be from asthma, but a coronial inquest is now probing whether his death was caused by the sausages after he was posthumously diagnosed with mammalian meat allergy.”
Ticks can pass on an allergy known as alpha-gal syndrome. The immune response caused by a tick’s bite can sensitise the body to a sugar called alpha gal that’s present in red meat.
When a person has alpha-gal syndrome, they can experience allergic symptoms after eating beef, pork or lamb. Symptoms include rashes, nausea and vomiting.
Researchers had worried that fatal anaphylaxis—an extreme allergic reaction—could also be a possibility, but until recently there were no known cases.
Webb’s mother said her son had repeatedly been bitten by ticks since an early age.
“When I first suspected mammalian meat allergy, I did look into it, but there wasn’t much information back then,” Webb said.
“I sort of saw it as a food intolerance, not an allergy that can kill you from anaphylaxis.”
The New South Wales Coroner is expected to release their verdict on Webb’s death before the end of the year.
An allergy expert who addressed the inquest said there had been a 40% year-on-year increase in meat allergy diagnoses since 2020, and that people had a 50% chance of developing the allergy after just two bites.
Two weeks ago, Infowars reported on the first recorded death from a meat allergy, which took place in the US.
An otherwise healthy 47-year-old man died within four hours of eating a beef hamburger this summer. The cause of his death was considered a mystery until researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine re-examined the case and discovered the allergy.
Reminder that in 2016 “bioethicist” S Matthew Liao called for the bioengineering of humans to make them allergic to meat in exactly the manner caused by the lone-star tick. He said this should be done to save the planet from climate change.pic.twitter.com/7K5NRd8VyS https://t.co/jYuUVJtAbD
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) August 20, 2025
The victim, whose name has yet to released, is reported to have gone camping with his wife and children last summer. One night during the trip, the family ate steak, and the man soon began to experience severe stomach pain, diarrhea and vomiting. Although he recovered, he told his family he had believed he was going to die.
Two weeks later, he ate a hamburger at a barbecue and was dead within four hours.
After an autopsy proved inconclusive, his wife contacted the University of Virginia’s medical school for help.
They tested blood samples from the victim and found that he had been sensitized to alpha-gal. The blood also showed that he had suffered an extreme allergic reaction.
When researchers asked the wife about her husband’s history of tick bites, she said he had suffered 12 or 13 chigger bites around his ankles during the summer. Many suspected chigger bites are actually bites from juvenile lone-star ticks.
The range of the lone-star tick has expanded massively in recent decades due to a variety of factors including warmer climates, changes in land use and increased populations of host animals such as wild turkeys and white-tailed deer.
Millions, maybe even tens of millions, of Americans have developed meat allergies due to lone-star tick bites. Now we're being told there's a solution: "genetically modified pigs created for organ transplant research." I bet this will hit the market soon. pic.twitter.com/to1hs8mUWB
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) July 22, 2024
Establish breeding populations have been documented in parts of the northeast, including New York and New Jersey, and the Midwest.
The CDC’s website notes that, “Amblyomma americanum distribution in the 1750s reached across the eastern United States. Since then, tick distribution receded as forested land was reduced and white-tailed deer populations decreased. White-tailed deer are a keystone host for this tick.
“Since the 1940s, conservation measures and relocation of deer have led to increased numbers and range of white-tailed deer populations in the Eastern United States. Associated with the expansion of white-tailed deer populations, the lone star tick has repopulated their historical range.”
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